Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 03:23:38 04/16/01
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On April 15, 2001 at 23:42:05, Drazen Marovic wrote: > >>- Programmers are free to develop their engines until October 1st, provided >>that they will send regular updates to Kramnik. The idea is to avoid the >>DB-Kasparov scenario, in which Kasparov had no idea of the opponent. >> > > What i wonder, and of course my thinking may be flawed here. If say player >(X) has the exact copy of the program he is to play in the match, along with >similar hardware. He then plays test games which he finds the computer loses >in. Then it seems to me, that the games can in many circumstances can be >recreated at the board during the match creating wins without the slightest >thought. This especially because the program used in the match wont have any >learning experience of the games played by player (X) with his home computer. >Of course you can't force the computer to play the exact line but in many cases >this can be done, in fact i have played a win against Fritz, later had to >reinstall, and then played the same identical win over before. The programs >short of it being Deep Blue already have almost no chance against Volodya, >giving him the program before hand. Why even have the match? Yes i am saying >the result is a foregone conclusion. > >D i agree: rather than actually sending the programme, i would have thought that sending a latest series of games played by the said programmes (a batch of 200 or so comp vs comp matches played with a variety of openings along with the known comp-comp and comp-human games already published )which the Vlad can then analyse, for playing style, etc, would be a fairer choice i think.beside vlad can already test the existing versions in detail anyway! this way you are handing over the match to vlad with the programmes already bound over in chains! rajen
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